330 THE BURMANNIACEZ OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
3 inches tall, branched and quite leafless except for a few scales. 
The inflorescence is branched, and the flowers, which are shortly 
stalked, are arranged on one side of the branches. The whole 
plant is whitish, except the flower, which is of a pale violet 
colour. The little flowers are tubular with no wings, and have 
six small spreading oval perianth-lobes. The fruit is a capsule, 
covered with the tubular part of the corolla, which becomes 
skeletonised as the fruit ripens and looks like a network cover- 
ing it. The seeds are very numerous, dark brown, very small, 
subglobose with the ends drawn out into short points and 
covered with low warts or bosses. 
It grows in Singapore at Chan Chu Kang and Bukit Timah, 
in Selangor at Pataling, and in Malacca on Bukit Sadanen. 
It is found in the densest parts of the forest, and is very fond 
of appearing on newly cut paths through the forest. 
THISMIA.—This genus contains perhaps the most remark- 
able plants in the order, and indeed some of the most curious 
of th Malayan region. They are succulent, fugacious herbs, 
yellow, grey, or red, but never green, and would be taken for 
fungi by an ordinary observer. About six kinds have been 
described, of which the most striking forms have been met 
within Borneo and New Guinea, but other species occur in 
Ceylon, Burma and Tasmania. ‘They are usually to be met 
with in damp forests among the dead leaves on the ground, 
and especially at the foot of old trees. As they are so fleshy 
and delicate they require to be preserved in spirits of wine, 
in which, however, though keeping their form unaltered, they 
become pure white. 
Two species are to be found in Singapore, one of which 
Th. Aseroe was collected by Professor BECCAR Iat Woodlands 
near Kranji, and has since been found by myself on Bukit 
Timah. The other is an undescribed species, which I have 
met with both in Singapore and Selangor, but very rarely, and 
for which I propose the name of 7h. fumzda on account of 
its smoky colour. 
THISMIA ASEROE, (Becc., Malesia, vol. 1, p. 252, Plate ro). 
A small herbaceous succulent plant about 2 or 3 inches tall 
with a creeping white rhizome emitting at intervals small tufts 
of rather thick short roots and LOE stems. Flower-stems 
